Genetic and environmental continuity in personality development: a meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT: The longitudinal stability of personality is low in childhood but increases substantially into adulthood. Theoretical explanations for this trend differ in the emphasis placed on intrinsic maturation and socializing influences. To what extent does the increasing stability of personality result from the continuity and crystallization of genetically influenced individual differences, and to what extent does the increasing stability of life experiences explain increases in personality trait stability? Behavioral genetic studies, which decompose longitudinal stability into sources associated with genetic and environmental variation, can help to address this question. We aggregated effect sizes from 24 longitudinal behavioral genetic studies containing information on a total of 21,057 sibling p

SUBMITTER: Briley DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4152379 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature